On this day: Mary, Queen of Scots returned to Scotland from France, 1561; a plebiscite held in Germany gave sole power to the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, 1934; Lt-Gen Bernard Montgomery became commander of the British Eighth Army in North Africa, 1942; Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old marksman, went on a rampage, killing 14 people and then himself, in Hungerford, Berkshire, 1987; a state of emergency was declared in the Soviet Union and troops surrounded the parliament building in Moscow, 1991.

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